Wednesday, October 06, 2004

What They Found

Even though this article is slanted to the left, this section seems to speak volumes to me.
Report: Saddam not in pursuit of weapons: "What U.S. forces found:

_A single artillery shell filled with two chemicals that, when mixed while the shell was in flight, would have created sarin. U.S. forces learned of it only when insurgents, apparently believing it was filled with conventional explosives, tried to detonate it as a roadside bomb in May in Baghdad. Two U.S. soldiers suffered from symptoms of low-level exposure to the nerve agent. The shell was from Saddam's pre-1991 stockpile.

_Another old artillery shell, also rigged as a bomb and found in May, showed signs it once contained mustard agent.

_Two small rocket warheads, turned over to Polish troops by an informer, that showed signs they once were filled with sarin.

_Centrifuge parts buried in a former nuclear scientist's garden in Baghdad. These were part of Saddam's pre-1991 nuclear program, which was dismantled after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The scientist also had centrifuge design documents.

_A vial of live botulinum toxin, which can be used as a biological weapon, in another scientist's refrigerator. The scientist said it had been there since 1993.

_Evidence of advanced design work on a liquid-propellant missile with ranges of up to 620 miles. Since the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq had been prohibited from having missiles with ranges longer than 93 miles."

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